The Pregnant Mother Runner Podcast
Jul 21, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
This week, pregnancy started to feel very real. I’m thinking more about how much life is going to change, how difficult it is to plan for the unknown, and how emotional it feels to prepare for…
Serena MarieHost
Um, we are now, like, halfway through February, a little bit more than that, and my baby is due mi- end of May.
And this kind of went from this, like, situation that will be happening one day to, oh my God, like, there's about to be another baby.
Like, I feel, I felt very anxious with my first pregnancy, and I don't feel that same way this pregnancy, but, like, there's just, like, logistics to figure out.
Um, and a lot is gonna change, and you can't really plan for it 'cause you don't exactly know how big that change will be, right? Like, will this be a really sleepy baby or will this be a really needy baby? Um, how will my son react? I, [chuckles] I, like, just, there's so many unknowns.
I definitely have been having a little bit more freak outs, and I feel like I've been waking up in the middle of the night this past week just because I'm like, "Oh my God, this is, like, really happening," and [chuckles] this is, like, a really big life change.
And, um, this baby is so wanted and I am so excited to meet them, but [chuckles] it's just, like, wild.
Um, I also have been feeling, um, [clears throat] I would say just, like, very tired, and that has been a mainstay of this pregnancy.
Um, again, like, I had a lot of, like, crazy life stuff happen this pregnancy, so it's a little hard to say, like, how much of this is grief and how much of this is pregnancy and how much of this I have a toddler who is one and a half years old and, you know, there's a lot of stuff kind of playing into it.
Um, we are now, like, halfway through February, a little bit more than that, and my baby is due mi- end of May.
And this kind of went from this, like, situation that will be happening one day to, oh my God, like, there's about to be another baby.
Like, I feel, I felt very anxious with my first pregnancy, and I don't feel that same way this pregnancy, but, like, there's just, like, logistics to figure out.
Um, and a lot is gonna change, and you can't really plan for it 'cause you don't exactly know how big that change will be, right? Like, will this be a really sleepy baby or will this be a really needy baby? Um, how will my son react? I, [chuckles] I, like, just, there's so many unknowns.
I definitely have been having a little bit more freak outs, and I feel like I've been waking up in the middle of the night this past week just because I'm like, "Oh my God, this is, like, really happening," and [chuckles] this is, like, a really big life change.
And, um, this baby is so wanted and I am so excited to meet them, but [chuckles] it's just, like, wild.
Um, I also have been feeling, um, [clears throat] I would say just, like, very tired, and that has been a mainstay of this pregnancy.
Um, again, like, I had a lot of, like, crazy life stuff happen this pregnancy, so it's a little hard to say, like, how much of this is grief and how much of this is pregnancy and how much of this I have a toddler who is one and a half years old and, you know, there's a lot of stuff kind of playing into it.
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